· Private foundation
Batterson Ministries Inc
Receive, maintain, and administer assets in perpetuity exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, and/or educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended and the regulations issued thereunder and to use and apply the whole or any part of the principal and…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CIRS PROJECT | $29,320 |
| NATIONAL COMMUNITY CHURCH | $25,120 |
| SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $20,960 |
| TABLEOLOGY CORP | $10,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP | $10,000 |
| GLOBAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION | $8,360 |
| BITTERSWEET FOUNDATION | $6,730 |
| GLOBAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CIRS PROJECT | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL COMMUNITY CHURCH | $3,316 |
| SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| WORLD VISION | $468 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NCNATIONAL COMMUNITY CHURCH7× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2021–2023 · $125k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2021–2022 · $60k
Funded once
- TTHINKORYone grant, 2019 · $6k
- RFRESCUE- FREEDOM INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +339%
- MTMIDDLE TREE CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Visual story international fosters a network of christians working to fuel a global movement of story telling to further god's kingdom.
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
To creatively apply the power of storytelling to enrich the human experience and enhance the quality of life by addressing the challenges and opportunities in today's society and to infuse storytelling into the mainstream of…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Radio diaries uncovers the extraordinary stories of ordinary life. we believe that one person documenting their own story can help us rethink our assumptions; remind us of our shared humanity; and make us truly feel what it would be like…
Liberty Women's Clinic ministers with the love of Christ by empowering people to make informed, life-affirming decisions about pregnancy, sexual health, and relationships.
To proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the world. Taking His love to the orphans, widows and children being trafficked by providing homes, feeding, education, clothing and care.
Multifaceted faith based free service to overcome chronic homelessness.
Destiny rescue's mission is to rescue children from sexual exploitation and human trafficking and equip them to stay free.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Whole Child International promotes positive developmental outcomes for children through child protection systems strengthening and improving the quality of care for children in low- and middle-income countries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bittersweet Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cirs Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Batterson Ministries Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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